Stack Insights

What 90,515 indie launches actually shipped.

90,515

launches analysed

64%

no AI stance on robots.txt

43%

skip ToS or privacy policy

20-39

median Vibe Score band

Vibe Score Distribution

How AI-built do these launches look? Higher = more AI fingerprints.

0-19

38,021 42%

20-39

29,707 33%

40-59

10,577 12%

60-79

3,317 4%

80-100

8,662 10%

Product Hunt avg 31 (72,998 sites)

Hacker News avg 19 (6,996 sites)

7,344 sites

score 70+ for AI-built but also 80+ for launch readiness.

Polished vibecode.

31 providers

on one site, all configured for email. 100 sites use 5 or more.

Commitment issues?

8,197 sites

ship a sitemap with fewer than 3 URLs.

Why bother?

AI Posture

How sites position themselves on AI crawlers, and which crawlers they block most.

Stance breakdown

No stance 64%

Open (has llms.txt) 24%

Blocking AI bots 9%

Confused (blocks but has llms.txt) 3%

Most blocked crawlers

across 69,514 sites with a robots.txt

CCBot 16%

Bytespider 16%

GPTBot 16%

Google-Extended 16%

ClaudeBot 15%

Amazonbot 15%

Applebot-Extended 15%

meta-externalagent 15%

Site Hygiene

Legal pages, sitemaps, and the basics of being a real site.

Legal compliance

67% have a privacy policy

58% have terms of service

57% have both

444 shipped unfilled placeholders

Policy generators detected:

Termly (362) Iubenda (139) Notion (128) TermsFeed (117) FreePrivacyPolicy.com (31) PrivacyPolicies.com (17) GetTerms (17)

Web standards

70% publish a sitemap

7% use Google Search Console

22% publish an app manifest

21% are installable as a PWA

Avg sitemap: 258 URLs (median 14, max 504,452).

Techs That Ship Together

Most common technology pairings across launches.

HSTS	↔	Tailwind CSS	33,260 launches
Google Search Console	↔	HSTS	33,087 launches
Google Search Console	↔	Tailwind CSS	31,320 launches
Next.js	↔	React	30,821 launches
HSTS	↔	Vercel	28,400 launches
Google Analytics	↔	Google Tag Manager	28,017 launches
Cloudflare	↔	HTTP/3	27,296 launches
Google Analytics	↔	Google Search Console	27,246 launches
Cloudflare	↔	Google Search Console	26,242 launches
React	↔	Tailwind CSS	25,782 launches

More curiosities

9,305 sites have a privacy policy but no terms of service. Half the legal job done.
1,604 sites have terms of service but no privacy policy. Backwards priorities.